The politics of scale in policy: Scalecraft and education governance, First Edition
Natalie Papanastasiou

Despite the central position that scale occupies in the frameworks of policy scholars and practitioners, scale has escaped critique in the study of policy. This book explains why this problem matters to our understandings of policymaking by highlighting how scale is not a natural feature of the social world, but is instead an integral feature of social practice.

By focusing on the area of education governance and drawing on the empirical cases of England's academy schools policy and European education governance, the book presents scalecraft as a novel conceptual lens for addressing the scalar blind spot of policy analysis.